Foot Drop and Nerve Compression
Here's another new medical term for you: foot drop. Foot drop basically means difficulty lifting the front part of your foot, which can happen because of nerve compression in the…
Here's another new medical term for you: foot drop. Foot drop basically means difficulty lifting the front part of your foot, which can happen because of nerve compression in the…
One of the problems you see with a long spinal fusion is that, although usually quite a few years later, the patient will experience a lot of sacroiliac joint pain and…
Looking back on a minimally invasive spinal fusion on this beautiful Monday! Let's check out the view and explore how this fusion will provide increased stability to relieve this patient…
Every so often I come across a spinal fusion patient where it doesn't properly heal. Because the screw is now anchored to the bone, I'll perform a minimally invasive sacroiliac…
It's a wonderful feeling when a patient you treated decades ago trusts you to perform a second surgery. 20 years ago I operated on this patient and performed an L3-L5 spinal…
Degenerative disc disease, disc herniations, left side radiculopathy, lower back pain...you hate to see it but the spine is a complex structure and these things happen. To help this patient,…
Numbness and tingling in the legs combined with lower back pain is usually a sign of a problem. In this case, it turned out to be a herniated disc at…
In 2025, an endoscopic discectomy is the smallest, most minimally invasive spine surgery you can receive. Despite the incision's size, it allows us to get inside the spine to remove…
(Part 2/2) This patient had a previous L5-S1 fusion that still looks good, but now has spondylolisthesis at L4-L5 and is experiencing major back pain. Watch to the end to…
(Part 1/2) 10-12 years ago, this patient had a "minimally invasive" fusion. Thanks to the advancements in spine surgery, we've been able to decrease the size of the incision while…